Author Matt Mason
If you are reading this, then you will have your own story surrounding a gateway or “Eureka” moment. The time that something hit your ears and a switch in your brain was tripped like a the infected in 28 Days… Continue Reading →
Rumbles from the West. Portland Oregon’s Petrification have released their second album “Sever Sacred Light” (which for some reason I have an issue saying out loud), on Svart records. This is the follow up to “Hollow of the Void in 2018… Continue Reading →
Back in January 2021 a debut album came out that slapped the sweaty corpse paint off my mush. “Godslastering Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry” impressed me so much it stayed in my head and ears throughout that year to top… Continue Reading →
Right let’s start by mounting this high horse. I have been in Suffolk 20 years and despite being anti nationalistic and flag hating have become strangely fond of this city less county. The Infernal Sea appear just as passionate (possibly… Continue Reading →
Brisbane is not the first place you think of for filthy gnarly, sludgy Death Metal. I was there in the mid 90’s and I just remember the fake beach on Australia day, extreme humidity and a lot of Hahn Ice… Continue Reading →
This album was given the very brief description of Black Rock Country when I spied it in the list of ready and willing releases. Gotta say that description intrigued me. I was envisaging something like the Canadian terror country of… Continue Reading →
There were a lot of great albums released in 2023 as can be seen from Ave Noctum writers Top 20’s Here My top of the tree was occupied by two albums Going Off’s “What Makes You Tick?” and Further Into… Continue Reading →
It’s a cold, grim and rainy day. What I need to perk things right up is some Swedish Grindcore with a dirty dose of death metal added. Lurching into life in 2017 this is the third release and second full length effort from the… Continue Reading →
I’ll be honest I have never heard of A Hill to Die Upon but that is not saying much. I am no encyclopaedia or gatekeeper of all things rock and metal. They obviously have some good connections though as they have… Continue Reading →
The metal and punk worlds are dotted with prolific multi instrumentalists for whom recording and releasing new material appears to be an obsession rather than a chore. Often the adjective “mentalist” shines through out of the description due to the composer’s manic… Continue Reading →
Nostalgic Death Metal albums are like buses. You miss one then ten will turn up dressed in greasy denim and bullet belts belching songs about war and tragedy before dragging you off towards the early 90’s. Shrapnel Storm from Finland… Continue Reading →
When is a supergroup not a supergroup? I would say when it has anything to do with extreme metal. Those guys just not keep it in their pants when it comes to musical monogamy. They leap into bands like the… Continue Reading →